About Camp Cleghorn
A historic lake community centered on faith, family, and stewardship.
Camp Cleghorn is a longtime Christian summer community on Columbia Lake in Waupaca, Wisconsin. Today it includes 41 privately owned cottages, a summer chapel tradition, and a shared commitment to preserving the land that makes the camp distinct.
Community
Camp Cleghorn remains a place where families return across generations, sharing summer routines, lakeside traditions, and a close-knit sense of responsibility to one another.
Worship
Sunday chapel services continue each summer as a non-denominational gathering open to cottage owners, guests, neighbors, and visitors.
Conservation
The camp’s stewardship extends beyond buildings and shoreline to Lost Lake, a protected woodland and wetland area that will not be developed.
What makes Camp Cleghorn distinctive
Camp Cleghorn began with roots in the Good Templars movement and retains a strong sense of moral and communal purpose. That heritage still shapes camp culture today, including the expectation that alcohol remain limited to private cottage premises rather than shared spaces.
The camp is not a commercial resort and not a typical conference center. It is a residential summer community sustained by the people who care for it, return to it, and protect its character.
This site presents Camp Cleghorn in a clearer, more current way for first-time visitors while respecting the history that longtime families already know by heart.